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In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
Composer
Harpsichordist
Musician
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Newton
North Carolina
Myra Ellen Amos
Ari Tomos
Ellen Amos
Starving
Dry
Bones
Sex
Play
Real
Mango
Life
Dripping
Bone

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